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Post author: David Barnes. Last update: 02/11/2015 at 1:30 pm by David Barnes.

Overview

The Monash Immersive Visualisation Platform features CAVE2TM – a next-generation immersive hybrid 2D and 3D virtual reality environment, showcasing Monash’s leadership in the data visualisation domain. This $1.8M facility is a unique research instrument in Australia, representing the world’s most advanced visualisation facility of its type at the time of launch. The CAVE2 will power research across a range of disciplines including engineering, science and medicine, and with partners such as CSIRO. With high-speed connectivity to the Monash network, CAVE2 enables the interactive exploration of data from sources including the synchrotron, electron microscopes, medical imaging instruments and a variety of simulations. Based on the latest design deployed at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory, in the University of Illinois at Chicago, Monash’s CAVE2 facility takes the next step in visual computation capability, and combines the benefits of both scalable-resolution display walls and virtual-reality systems to create a seamless 2D/3D environment that supports both information-rich analysis, as well as virtual-reality simulation at ultra-high resolution.